If I’m honest, I probably would have danced on Lindsey Graham’s grave 20 years ago, when I defined myself as “antiwar.” But today I have a measured respect for him. I now understand that neoconservativism is one of the handful of ideologies capable of maintaining the world order and taking responsibility for America’s power. I’ve come to appreciate this, not so much through Trump’s actions as president, as through critically examining all those “antiwar” geopolitical ideologies that formed on the Right and among America’s enemies, which I might have been sympathetic to years ago. Here are two cheers for Lindsey! You were on the wrong side of things so often, but on the right side when it mattered for Europe. You were a man.